Some updates.

crash_course_socialism.md

@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 - [Lenin - “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/) . [Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtRQaoSlxs&list=PL0-IkmzWbjob1T8DTNDG7EQaN18eSJ97m)
 - [Lenin - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/)
 - [Trotsky - Fascism: What it is and how to Fight it](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm)
-- [Trotsky - In Defense of October](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1932/11/oct.htm)
 
 ### Marxian economics
 
@@ -344,7 +343,6 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni
 - [Huey P. Newton - Revolutionary Suicide](https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143105329)
 - [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894404&sr=8-1&keywords=open+veins+of+latin+america)
 - [Fidel Castro - My Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_(Fidel_Castro_autobiography))
-- [Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution](https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/)
 - [Joshua Bloom - Black Against Empire](https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894343&sr=8-1&keywords=black+against+empire)
 - [Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds](https://www.amazon.com/Blackshirts-Reds-Rational-Overthrow-Communism/dp/0872863298)
 

microsoft.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   - Messaging: Killed AOL's instant messenger via embracing then introducing incompatibilities in AIM messenger.
   - Microsoft acquired Nokia, and mandated that Windows Phone 7 be put on all new phones. [9000 workers quit the company in protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_explorer_rfunny_said_i_should_post_it/c6lbhu2/), and Nokia's brand value fell from [5th to 98th place](https://www.rankingthebrands.com/The-Brand-Rankings.aspx?rankingID=37&year=857) in 2014.
   - [Microsoft acquires Skype, it becomes bloated and users flee to other platforms.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/736tfh/skype_is_officially_bloatware_uninstalled_it/)
+  - [Bill Gates alternating between acting like a child, and a sociopath during his anti-trust deposition.](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/revisiting-the-spectacular-failure-that-was-the-bill-gates-deposition/)
 
 - Its [workers often suffer burnout](https://archive.is/20120629191556/http://www.krsaborio.net/research/1980s/89/890423.htm), and has been called a *velvet sweatshop*. Microsoft lost a lawsuit for $93 million for using "permatemp" employees, which were worked as hard as ordinary employees, yet received none of the benefits. Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas in order to pay them less. Microsoft has also come under criticism for developing software capable of analyzing the output of remote sensors in order to [measure the competence and productivity of workers based on their physical responses.](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/microsoft-seeks-patent-for-office-spy-software-h0dd5zmtfnt)
 - Github, now owned by microsoft, begins [blocking developers from countries antagonistic to the US](https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-starts-blocking-developers-in-countries-facing-us-trade-sanctions/) such as Iran, Russia.

socialism_faq.md

@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@
 - [Did Stalin 'betray' the revolution? (repost of deleted question)](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1dp6qw/did_stalin_betray_the_revolution_repost_of/)
 - [Why was "Lenin's testament" suppressed by the Party after Lenin's death?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2lfc5f/why_was_lenins_testament_suppressed_by_the_party/)
 
+## On India
+
+- [An overview of the communist movement in India.](https://www.thetricontinental.org/dossier-32-communist-movement-in-india/)
+
 ## On the USSR
 
 * [Did socialism achieve anything in the USSR?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/)
@@ -760,6 +764,7 @@
   - [Used philanthropy as a front to generate profits for businesses in the agricultural and health sectors. ](https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F60%2Findex.html%3Fuuid%3D25408)
 - [Citations Needed - The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media.](https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media)
 - [Post from a web developer about Microsoft's monopoly practices in the 1990s.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_explorer_rfunny_said_i_should_post_it/c6lbhu2/)
+- [Bill acting like a sociopath in the depositions for Microsofts anti-trust lawsuit](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/revisiting-the-spectacular-failure-that-was-the-bill-gates-deposition/)
 - [Microsoft crimes masterpost.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/microsoft.md)
 - [How Bill Gates got rich / Is he really evil?](https://www.quora.com/Is-Bill-Gates-evil)
 - [His charities promote corporate interests above health care](http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/gjn_gates_report_june_2016_web_final_version_2.pdf).
@@ -925,7 +930,8 @@
 ### Biden
 
 - [Biden on young, black, "super-predators"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRaSRZKo2U)
-- [Biden - "I don't want to defund the police, we need more police. Trump wants to tho"](https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1297035723485323264?s=20)
+- [Biden - "I don't want to defund the police, we need more police. Trump wants to tho"](https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1297035723485323264?s=20) [2](https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1303377661545324545?s=20)
+- ["I have no plans for defense cuts."](https://www.stripes.com/news/us/biden-says-us-must-maintain-small-force-in-middle-east-has-no-plans-for-major-defense-cuts-1.644631)
 - https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story
 - https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1251644551367925760
 - https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1258861634812067841?s=20
@@ -1086,7 +1092,7 @@
 - [Why are socialists against Israel / Zionism?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5L4YU_Fl4&feature=youtu.be)
 - [Do most US troops come from poor neighborhoods? (Yes, debunking the heritage foundation debunkers)](https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/poor-and-uneducated-like-we-thought/Content?oid=933196)
 - [Why communists do not participate in anti-russia hysteria, pushed by the democrats.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/90i5yp/why_the_marxist_left_is_opposed_to_and_does_not/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9vaw8f/-/e9b1kxr)
-- [Is there any real evidence for Russian interference in US elections?](https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/05/crowdstrikeout_muellers_own_report_undercuts_its_core_russia-meddling_claims.html)
+- [Is there any real evidence for Russian interference in US elections?](https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/05/crowdstrikeout_muellers_own_report_undercuts_its_core_russia-meddling_claims.html) [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/11/bombshell-crowdstrike-admits-no-evidence-russia-stole-emails-from-dnc-server/)
 - [Why don't communists call trump treasonous? Aren't Putin and Trump collaborating and meddling in US elections?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/a9tgff/lsc_insulted_some_democrats/ecmcel1/)
 - [Why doesn't X minority just lift themselves up by the bootstraps out of poverty? Response by MLK. ](https://streamable.com/eafqq)
 - [To what extent is modern day Vietnam Socialist?](https://medium.com/@otelocarvalho/socialism-today-in-vietnam-ac22ce2edf47)

us_atrocities.md

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Notes :
 - In January 2015, the [US killed 13-year-old Mohammed Tuaiman in Yemen](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-yemeni-teenager-mohammed-tuaiman-death-cia-strike?CMP=share_btn_tw) with a drone strike. A month earlier, the guardian interviewed him, and he was quoted as saying: "“A lot of the kids in this area wake up from sleeping because of nightmares from them and some now have mental problems. They turned our area into hell and continuous horror, day and night, we even dream of them in our sleep...In their eyes, we don’t deserve to live like people in the rest of the world and we don’t have feelings or emotions or cry or feel pain like all the other humans around the world.” In 2011 an unmanned combat drone killed his father and teenage brother as they were out herding the family’s camels. [1](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-yemeni-teenager-mohammed-tuaiman-death-cia-strike?CMP=share_btn_tw)
 - Since 2013, The US has intervened militarily in the ongoing [Syrian Civil War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War#Western_coalition), with airstrikes, naval bombardments, and funding and training Syrian Islamic and secular insurgents fighting to topple the Syrian government. Many have labeled the struggle as a proxy war between US and Russian interests in the Middle East, in a highly unstable region. Between 500-700 civilians [have been killed by coalition airstrikes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria#cite_note-airwars.org-328), and over 50,000 [ISIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant) militants and pro-bashad fighters have been killed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria)
 - From 2011 up to the present day, the US ousted Mummar Gaddafi in Libya, and began conducting an extensive bombing campaign (>110 tomahawk cruise missiles) in the [Libyan Civil Wars of 2011 and 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)). This includes 7,700 air strikes, resulting in 30,000 -100,000 deaths. Loyalist towns were bombed to rubble and ethnically cleansed, and the country is in chaos as Western-trained and armed Islamist militias seize territory and oil facilities and vie for power. The Misrata militia, trained and armed by Western special forces, is one of the most violent and powerful in the world.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)) The country has since collapsed into a chaos of child soldiers, [slavery](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-slave-auctions-un-migration), and violence between extremist groups, a haunting repetition of what US imperialism has left in its wake in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. [An interview with Gaddafi's former spokesman about the US overthrow of Libya.](https://www.rt.com/news/470321-libya-gaddafi-spokesman-interview/).
+- US drone operator turned whistleblower [Brandon Bryant](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-military-drone-nazis-brandon-bryant-a9324011.html) told stories about his time as a drone operator in Afghanistan from 2006-2011. He estimates that he contributed directly to killing 13 people himself and says his squadron fired on 1,626 targets including women and children. He tells of one instance of killing a child, with his superiors telling him "it was a f**** dog, drop it". “That image on the screen is still in my head. Whenever I think about it, it still hurts me,” Mr Bryant said. “When I pulled the trigger, I knew that it was wrong. When the missile struck I knew in my soul I had become a murderer.” He tells of how his superiors would ridicule, punish, and threaten legal action against anyone who had misgivings about their orders. He believes that the US military is "worse than the nazis."
 - In 2010, Chelsea Manning's leak of the [Iraq War Logs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak) revealed US army reports on civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; [66,081 out of 109,000 recorded deaths were civilians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War). They show that US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, and that US troops killed almost 700 civilians for coming too close to checkpoints, including pregnant women and the mentally ill, and countless other atrocities.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak)
 - From 2000 up to the present day, the US has been carrying out a campaign of drone strikes and asassinations in the Middle East and Africa, including Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths, including women, [children](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush/), and US citizens. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_drone_strikes)  Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the [Obama administration](https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/10/KC_Heads01.png) has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. Drone strike targets are usually pinpointed through cell phone usage. The Obama asassination complex is detailed in the [drone papers](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers).
 - On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked and killed 42 people and wounded 30 more in the [Kunduz Trauma Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike) operated by Doctors Without Borders, in northern Afghanistan. The airstrike constitutes a war crime (attacks on hospitals are considered war crimes), and is the first instance of one Nobel peace prize winner (Obama) bombing and killing another (Doctors without borders). CNN and the New York Times deliberately obscured the US's responsibility for the bombing, with the headline, "US is blamed after bomb hits afghan hospital". [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike),[2](https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/cnn-and-the-nyt-are-deliberately-obscuring-who-perpetrated-the-afghan-hospital-attack/)